Book Details

ISBN 139781782178101

Paperback96 pages

Book Description

After the emergence of Cloud computing, most commercial applications either migrated or are the candidates to be migrated to the cloud. All big players in the market are providing their cloud services to consumers and Oracle offers the most complete range of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS cloud services.

"Getting Started with Oracle Public Cloud" is a hands-on guide that provides you with a practical and informative coverage of Oracle Public Cloud Services, including the Transition Service, Java Cloud Service, Database Cloud Service, Storage Cloud Service, and Messaging Cloud Service.

In this book, you will start with the essential concepts of Cloud computing and Oracle Public Cloud, and Oracle Public Cloud services. You will then learn about Oracle Managed Cloud services and their component services. You will also learn about the Oracle Cloud Transition service in detail. Next, you will cover the various components of the Oracle Database Cloud service, how to use the Oracle Application Express application building tool, and the management and creation of the Oracle Database Cloud service. You will also learn the various operations that can be performed on the Oracle Database Cloud service and the security aspects of the Oracle Database Cloud service. The essential part of Oracle Public Cloud is its services; you will become a master of these. You will also be provided with the best practices to be followed for application development, deployment, and usage to achieve optimal performance and a secure environment for your consumer’s application and data. By following Getting Started with Oracle Public Cloud, you will get to grips with the strong fundamentals and be clued up with sufficient details to enable you to start using these services for your application to be developed or migrated to the cloud.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What is Oracle Public Cloud?

Brief review of cloud computing concepts

Oracle Cloud Services

Architecture of Oracle Cloud Services

Wish to try Oracle Public Cloud?

Summary

Chapter 2: Transition to the Oracle Public Cloud

Oracle Managed Cloud Services

Oracle Cloud Transition Service

Components of the Transition Service

Features of Transition Service

Summary

Chapter 3: Oracle Java Cloud Service

Advantages of Oracle Java Cloud Service

Oracle Java Cloud Service architecture

Developing a cloud-enabled Java Enterprise Edition application

Administration of Oracle Java Cloud Service

Summary

Chapter 4: Oracle Database Cloud Service

Advantages of Oracle Database Cloud Service

Key components of Oracle Database Cloud Service

Oracle Application Express application builder

Creating and managing applications for Database Cloud Service

Performing operations on a database

Security concerns of Oracle Database Cloud Service

Summary

Chapter 5: Oracle Storage Cloud Service

Oracle Storage Cloud Service

Advantages of Oracle Storage Cloud Service

Features of Oracle Storage Cloud Service

Summary

Chapter 6: Oracle Messaging Cloud Service

Oracle Messaging Cloud Services

Advantages of Oracle Messaging Cloud Service

Features of Oracle Messaging Cloud Service

Summary

Chapter 7: Oracle Public Cloud Best Practices

Best practices for application development

Best practices for application deployment

Best practices for application performance

Best practices for application security

Best practices for data security and privacy

Summary

What You Will Learn

Understand thecore concepts of cloud computing

Master Oracle Public Cloud and its offered services

Explore the architecture of Oracle Public Cloud

Learn the importance of Oracle Managed Cloud services and Transition Services in Oracle Public Cloud

Get to grips with the usage and management of the Oracle Application Express and Database service

Discover the advantages, features, and usage of the Storage and Messaging cloud service

Learn about the usage and management of Java cloud service

Authors

Hemant Kumar Mehta

Hemant Kumar Mehta is a distributed and scientific computing enthusiast. He has more than 13 years of experience of teaching, research, and software development. He received his BSc (in computer science) Hons., master of computer applications degree, and PhD in computer science from Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India in 1998, 2001, and 2011, respectively. He has experience of working in diverse international environments as a software developer in MNCs. He is a post-doctorate fellow at an international university of high reputation.

Hemant has published more than 20 highly cited research papers in reputed national and international conferences and journals sponsored by ACM, IEEE, and Springer. He is the author of Getting Started with Oracle Public Cloud, Packt Publishing. He is also the coauthor of a book named Internet and Web Technology, published by Kaushal Prakashan Mandir, Indore.

He earned his PhD in the field of cloud computing and big data. Hemant is a member of ACM (Special Interest Group on High-performance Computing Education: SIGHPC-Edu), senior member of IEEE (the computer society, STC on cloud computing, and the big data technical committee), and a senior member of IACSIT, IAENG, and MIR Labs.

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